http://www.artician.com/explore/blogs/?cat=Career-Jobs-Executive Career & Jobs - Executive Blogs on Artician Sat, 25 May 2013 13:54:09 -0400 en-us http://eric.artician.com/blog/2007/01/CEOs-in-the-US-/ http://eric.artician.com/blog/2007/01/CEOs-in-the-US-/ The current situation regarding executive compensation is that executives of large companies in the US are believed to be earning more in theyre annual salary than they deserve. Some executives making larger percentages, when in fact the company stock prices have been going down in their terms as CEO.<br /><br /><br /><br />Company shareholders are getting increasingly involved and more aware about the fact that executives of the company that they invest in are earning up to almost 370 times that of the average worker.<br /><br /><br /><br />Executives get paid in several ways:<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Salary</b> - A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which is specified in an employment contract. From the point of view of running a business, salary can also be viewed as the cost of acquiring human resources for running operations.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Shares</b> A small piece of a company and/or organization. Shares of stock retain a small value of the company, and will change in value according to the positive or negative affects of the company statistics, market, and economy. <br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Options</b> Right to buy a specific number of shares of your company's stock during a time and at a price that your employer specifies.<br /><br /><br /><br />The concern for rapidly growing CEO salaries are relevant to business today simply because the market continues to expand along with it. More and more shareholders in public companies will be acting and voting based upon how well the CEO is stabilizing and developing the company while in his term. Its important that CEOs are paid according to their overall performance with in company. <br /><br /><br /><br />Not all executives are paid fairly for their efforts. As a matter of fact it really depends on the companies structure in payments. Some executives are indeed overpaid for really not doing anything, and some receiving increasing salaries even causing company value to go down.<br /><br /><br /><br />Recent efforts to implement a system where an executive gets paid based on his performance is a solution I think most can agree at. Its only fair, and will provide a payment solution that neither executives themselves nor stockholders can complain about. This way an executive will not lose out for good efforts within the company, and stockholders will be less disgruntled when the company executives salary goes up, only after their share values have gone up. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:10:19 EST